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18 May 2013

I don’t like to praise politicians too much as it only encourages them. But you have to hand it to Tony Abbott for so deftly finessing the Coalition industrial relations… Read more

11 May 2013

The opinion poll results are in and it is clear that the government did not get a bounce from the new disability scheme or the vast new expenditure on education.… Read more

4 May 2013

You might have noticed that the most recent Gillard disasters (the looming budget deficit, the failure of the mining tax to produce any revenue worth having, the absurdity of cutting… Read more

27 April 2013

I knew there had been a breakthrough in the Boston bombings last Saturday when I woke up and turned the wireless on. The ABC broadcasts an early-morning current affairs program… Read more

20 April 2013

I had thought that everything that could be said about Margaret Thatcher had been said by now, but it is a mark of her influence that the ferals, luvvies and… Read more

6 April 2013

It’s happened again. A young gay man coming to me for legal advice, but not the sort of advice the commentariat would have you believe occupies the sleeping and waking… Read more

30 March 2013

Raking over the ash heap of the Labor Party’s leadership debacle to find something original or worth remembering is a soul-destroying business. But among the sludge of double-dealing, treachery and… Read more

23 March 2013

Ms Gillard says we live now in days of campaigning and days of governing. But she is only two-thirds right, as there are also the days of impending doom and… Read more

16 March 2013

You would think that pride alone would be enough to encourage the ABC to do something about Insiders. Last Sunday, The Bolt Report on Channel 10 had 168,000 viewers, while… Read more

9 March 2013

As politics and public life have become part of the entertainment industry, they have given their own unique meaning to words. The other day I was listening to the ABC… Read more

2 March 2013

Being original about the slow-moving train wreck of the Gillard government is becoming increasingly difficult. But a few novel points seem to be emerging. First, unsavoury personalised attacks of the… Read more

23 February 2013

I wish I had been to the Francis Bacon exhibition in Sydney before, rather than after, I wrote that Julia Gillard seems to be pathologically accident-prone and that we should… Read more

9 February 2013

Little did I know how far-sighted I was when I wrote last week that Julia Gillard’s disasters in public administration now seem so endemic that we must expect more of… Read more

2 February 2013

You could hear the plop last week as the latest proposal for a new Australian flag collapsed before it was hauled up the flagpole. Ausflag has proposed that we have… Read more

26 January 2013

The debate over compulsory and voluntary voting was diverting for a few days, but it is pretty clear that nothing will be done about changing the law. The Labor party… Read more

19 January 2013

Before joining in the universal adulation of the appointees to the Royal Commission into child abuse, let us reflect on two of them. First, I am probably in a minority… Read more

12 January 2013

If you want to be popular with your teenage children, you should start watching Game of Thrones, because they all watch it and have read the massive books on which… Read more

5 January 2013

On Christmas Day I went to The Scots Church in Collins Street, where there was a surprisingly large turnout of more than 100 souls. Perhaps Christianity is making a comeback,… Read more

15 December 2012

I see that even the Liberal party has been bitten by the vision thing. Former Senator Amanda Vanstone has decided to tell her adoring readers in the Fairfax media how… Read more

8 December 2012

One of the more diverting spin-offs from Slushgate is the insight it has given us into the Prime Minister’s salad days and the rollicking good times she had as a… Read more

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